It's a simple addition I've been thinking of too. Adding the 'logged in user' option to file uploads. It should be very simple to implement. +1 from me.
El dom., 25 jun. 2017 a las 19:15, Indranil Das Gupta (<indr...@gmail.com>) escribió: > Hi all, > > the current Koha::Upload.pm and opac-retrieve-file.pl allows for a > uploaded file (e.g. PDF) to be displayed on the OPAC as long as the > flag is set to public. > > I know how many librarians feel about reader history privacy and they > are protective about it for good reason. In this context, I'm faced > with the following two use-cases: > > In India, e-books with archival rights are gaining ground over > hardcopy. As it happens the buyer (institutional library) has to give > an undertaking that it will implement reasonable safeguards to ensure > that while all their bonafide users should have access to the books, > these shall not be presented to the users in such as way as to permit > un-monitored access / downloads by un-authenticated users etc along > with maintenance of any access log for any necessary compliance. > > Or for example PhD theses where many institutions across India have an > embargo on the full-text online access for non-members for a period > upto 2 years from the date of publication, but no such restriction > exist for bonafide authorised users. > > I am working on an early stage prototype to support this sort of > functionality. My question here to you all is that how far are we > open as devs and librarians to accept such an extension into Koha? Of > course, there would be a syspref that will have to be set for the > functionality to kick in. > > Suggestions? Comments? > > regards > indranil > > -- > Indranil Das Gupta > L2C2 Technologies > > Phone : +91-98300-20971 <+91%2098300%2020971> > WWW : http://www.l2c2.co.in > Blog : http://blog.l2c2.co.in > IRC : indradg on irc://irc.freenode.net > Twitter : indradg > _______________________________________________ > Koha-devel mailing list > Koha-devel@lists.koha-community.org > http://lists.koha-community.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/koha-devel > website : http://www.koha-community.org/ > git : http://git.koha-community.org/ > bugs : http://bugs.koha-community.org/ > -- Tomás Cohen Arazi Theke Solutions (https://theke.io <http://theke.io/>) ✆ +54 9351 3513384 GPG: B2F3C15F
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